Figure toy



April 8, 1924;

FIGURE TOY F. E. CIAVATTI Filed April 3, 1920 ATTORNEY BY. 0. 72M,

Patented pr. 8, 1924.4

STATES PATENT oFFl'cE.

FIGURE TOY.

Application led April 3, 1920. Serial No. 371,114.

To all whom it mai/comem:

Be it known that l, FERNANDO E. CIA- vAr'rI, a citizen of Italy, andresident of West Hoboken, in the county of l-ludson and State of NewJersey, have invented a certain new and useful Figure Toy, of which thefollowing is a specification, the same bein a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled intheart to which it appertains to make and use the same. s

"lhis invention relates to articles contrived orused for the amusementof children, as toys, and particularly to puppets such as thoserepresenting a babe and commonly designated as figure toys or dollshavin one or more movable members, and the o ject of the invention is toconstruct a doll having a dexible face constructed and arranged uponmanipulation to depict various emotions and to imitate the expressionsof the human face in' a natural and pleasing manner.

With this and other objects in view, the

invention consists in the construction, ar-

rangement and operation of parts hereinb after set forth, thewholefforming an emcient and serviceable article of comratively simpleconstruction and low cost.

ln the drawings, illustrative of one embodiment of the invention, whichaccompany and form a part of this speciication- Figure 1 represents aside elevation of an '-denotes the body of the doll which may be `of anysuitable material or construction,

but is preferably made hollow d of some rigid material or substance, andthe se may have an open neck at the upper part thereof whereby to attachthe hollow `head used by me.

llhe head, which may be secured to the body portion in either a xed ormovable relation may be constructed of such material as may be approvedand comprises an interior skull member 2 which serves to suppiece(especially so far as'the face portion thereof is concerned) in order toavoid joints and lines of demarkation therein, is preferably shaped torepresent a childs head and the front portion thereof may be coloredl tohave the appearance of a human face having eyelids and mouth normallyclosed, but having slits formed at the same in order to allow theeyelids to be raised and the mouth opened by means of smtable mechanismsuch Vfor example as is hereinr described.

lin the skull member are formed a plurality of openings, as th'eoriices3 serving as eye sockets and having rear slotted por tions 3'; openingst lying adjacent to the eyelids; orices 5 situated near the eyebrows; oenings 6 positioned near the temples; ori ces 7 located atthe cheeks,and a yaw opening 8. The jaw 8 is preferably pivoted at itsopposte endsto the respective sides or walls of the hollow skull as at l2. Theeyeballs 26 may be set in the sockets 3 and are preferablyv connected bya rod20 pivoted to the extensions of the eyeballs passing through theslots 3 of the said sockets.

Any suitable or approved devices may be used for the manipulation of theexible or elasticfaee in order that it may denote various expressions ofthecountcnance, but as a convenient way of accomplishing this resuit llpreferably employ in the present exple of the invention the followingmanually actuated mechanism:

The dollls face, as sta, normally representsa sleepin child, the eyesand mouth being closed. n order to-open the eyes ll preferably employmanual actuating devices as by attng` to each of the dexible eyelids apreferably dexible connection 22 passing from the interior faces of themid eyelids through the orices d, which united strands are attached toone end of a lever' 9 which is fastened to the interior of the skull.From the other extremity of the lever a similar preferably exibleconnection 22 extends downwardly to the lever 22 which is pivoted at 222and works in the slot i6 formed in the body 1. By pressing the lll@lever 22 downwardly the eyelids will be raised, and in order to keep theeyes open the said lever may be pushed sidewise in the lateral extensionof the slot 16 and thusl held in that position as long as may bedesired.

It has been deemed desirable by me that the doll may appear to look tothe right or left, and to that end I attach to the rod 20',

connecting the inwardly disposed extensions of the eyeballs 26 in apivoted relation, one end of the lever 20 pivoted at 13, the otherextremity of which lever extends downwardly and terminates in a button21 working in a slot 15 formed in the body. It is manifest that bypushing the button 21 to the right or left, the rod 20 and consequentlythe eyes, which work in the sockets 3, will be moved in the oppositedirection.

In order that the doll may appear to smile and have a pleasingappearance, as will bey almost always the case, I provide the followingmeans for opening the vmouth and pressing the cheeks inwardly andupwardly, and stretching both corners of the mouth thereby enlarging thelatter, to produce that effect. The lever 23 working in the slot 17serves to pull in a downward direction a preferably flexible connection23 which is divided and attached to one end of the lever 10 pivotallysecured to the interior of the skull. The said divided strands extendfrom the other extremities `of the lever and passing downwardly throughthe orifices 7, are secured to the inner faces of the flexible cheeksand serve to move the latter. Both corners of the mouth are thusstretched apart thereby enlarging the same by the manipulation of thelever 23 and producing a smiling effect. l

By simultaneously pushing down the lever 24 working in the slot 18, thepreferably flexible connection 24', which is secured to the jaw 8,serves to pull the same downwardly and to thus open the mouth, 'while bypressing down both the levers 23 and 24 simultaneously a laughing effectwill be produced.

It sometimes happens that it is desired to have the child appear tofrown, and to produce that effect I press down the lever 25 working inthe slot 19, and the flexible connection 25 attached to the same, which,passing through the orifices 5, serves by being fastened to the innerface of the covering 14 near the eyebrows, to pull the same downwardlyand also closer together.

By simultaneously pressingl the jaw lever yand lever 25 downwardly acrying expression may be had which can be accentuated by actuating thejaw lever 24 and opening the mouth intermittently.

The plurality of manually actuated devices, the button terminals oroperating parts of which are located. exterior of the ody, may thus bemade so as to be actuated separately or, so far at least as some of themare concerned, in unison.

It will thus be seen that I provide a doll having a face lof smooth andlife like form and appearance from which a child w1l l deriveconsiderable pleasure in causing 1t to produce, by the simplemanipulation of five buttons which are concealed beneath the dress ofthe doll, a great variety of facial expressions resembling very closelythose of a real human face.

In addition to the mechanical manually actuated devices an essentialfeature of the invention resides in the particular and specificformation of the hollow head, the latter comprising a dual constructionand having an interior relatively rigid member. made with alternateclosed and open portions and an outer or exterior flexible or elasticmember, the head being thus made thinner opposite the various featuresof the face at the said open spaces than at other parts -of t-he head.By means of this construction the various manually actuated deviceswhich move the said features may be operated either separately, seriatimor in unison.

I-wish it tobe understood that I do not desire to be limited to theparticular use or the exact details of construction shown and described,for obvious modifications will'occur to persons skilled in the art.

What I claim as my 'invention is 1. In a device of the class described aflexible covering comprising a face with flexible features, a rigidhollow support within said covering comprising a head, a partly hollowbody member on which said head is mounted, a plurality of orifices inthe head and body members, a plurality of manually actuated devicespivoted in the orifices in the body member and extending upward into thehead member and through respective orifices in said head member toattachment with certain features of said flexible face whereby saidfeature may be operated separately, seriatim'or in unision.

2.v In a device ofthe class described, a flexible covering, comprising aface, a rigid hollow support comprising a head, a hollow body member towhich said head is attached, orifices in the head and orifices in thebody, a plurality of structurally C,independent manually actuateddevices pivoted in the body orifices, and means operated therebyextending up into the head member and there divided and attached throughopposite orifices in said head to coordinated features of the flexiblecovering whereby oppositely positioned features may move in unison andvarious sets of features may be moved separately, seriatim or in unisonfor the purpose described.

3. In a device of the class described,.a body and a head comprising a`relatively rigid interior support-and a flexible coverlll ing comprisinga face to enclose the head and made with eye lids, eye openings and eyesockets made in the supporting head, eye balls in the sockets, anddevices mounted within the head and connected with the eye balls andwith the eye lids and extendin downwardly from the head, and manua lyactuated devices having a portion thereof located at the outer face ofthe body and attachedto the lower ends of said connecting devices tocontrol the operation of the latter and to move the eye balls and eyelids at will.

4. In a device of the class described a body, a hollow head and aflexible covering to represent a face, eye openings and eye lids in saidface, eye socket orifices in the head and eye balls in the sockets, aplurality of manually actuated devices pivoted in orifices in the body,and means extending therefrom upward into the head and coordinatelyconnected to opposite eye lids and eye balls for opening and closing theeye lids and turning the eye balls for the purpose described.

5. In a device'of the class described, a body and a head comprising arelatively rigid interior support and a flexible covering comprising aface to enclose the head and made with a mouth portion, a mouth openingand jaw socket made in the supporting head, a jaw in the socket, and adevice mounted within the head and connected with the jaw and mouthportion and extending downwardly from the head, and

a manually actuated device having a portion thereof located at the outerface of the body and attached to the lower end of the connecting deviceto control the operation of the latter and to move the jaw and mouthportion at will.

6. In a device of the class described, a body, a hollow head, and aflexible head covering having a face with iexible cheeks and mouthcorners, and orifices in the head positioned coordinately with saidmouth corners, an orifice in the body with a manually actuated devicepivoted therein and extending upward into the head and divided andcoordinately connected to said mouth corners for the purpose ofstretching the mouth and pressing the cheeks as described.

7. In a device of the class described, a body and a head comprising arigid interior portion and a flexible outer covering comprising a faceand made with eye brows, orifices made in the head adjacent to theeyebrows, and a device mounted within the head and connected with theeye brows and passing through the said orifices, and a manually actuateddevice having a portion thereof located at the outer face of the bodyand attached to thev lower end of the connecting device to move theeyebrows.

Signed at West Hoboken in the county of U Hudson and State of New Jerseythis second day of March A. D. 1920.

FERNANDO E. CIAVATTI.

